Do you think Syldavians smell funny?

what is this suppsed to be? syldavian isnt a person, its a language - a fictional one at that:

Although the language of a fictional East European country, Sylavian is based on Dutch, but with a Slavic-sounding orthography and some French and German borrowings.

so what up with this?

Incidentally, this survey was originally about Latvians. I was being very cheeky! "Syldavia" is a fictitious nation from the Tintin book: "King Ottokar's Sceptre" (1939).

That's an odd statement to make, given how active you were in making suggestions in qualification. The choice of a fictitious nation was largely due to your own criticisms of the original version.

no, because i have never smelled one!!
and no commentary is needed on what other surveys were or weren't considered, in the survey itself!!!

They do, indeed! They smell with their ears, whereas most people of other nationalities smell with their noses. Plus, they stink! Anyone who eats so many beans and so much cabbage is bound to produce some odor sooner or later.

I don't even know what a Syldavian is.

I knew it was you!

oh really, why? do tell. yea, i am very active in qual, but i had nothing to do with this survey after it was changed to syldavian. i was out of town. looks like i should have checked in.
syldavian isnt even people, its a language and a fake one at that! and this should have been marked monkee.
were you planning to tell these people that? or did you just plan for them to feel foolish? dont you think people here trust the info they are given and assume that by the time it gets to them that it is accurate? shame on you. shoulda just made it monkee and it wouldnt have mattered i think, but you gave credibility to something that wasnt by calling it opinion instead of monkee. and now you have my opinion.
oh, and dont even try pinning it on me that you found it necessary to invent something and pass it off as real - because your first survey was too racist to pass qual. whatever...

*whispers*
So did I!

This is pointless and in rather bad taste. I'm surprised it passed qualification.

Dude! You really need to mellow out. I don't know about you, but I think Survey Central is fun. I have lots of laughs around here.

As far as categories go, I think there is valid criticism in qualification, if someone creates a survey that is "miscellaneous" or in a category that doesn't remotely fit. But too give something a "needs work" when the category is perfectly suitable, but you just happen to disagree...I don't think that is very fair. But whatever, it isn't the end of the world, is it?

You don't really think I have something against Latvians do you?

To reiterate: "...or in a category that doesn't remotely fit."

http://surveycentral.org/survey/13584.html

Sports?

if you actually knew me, you would know how really mellow i am. i get a lot of laughs here, too.
i already told you, i had nothing whatsoever to do with this survey. i never marked it anything. i (and others) marked it needs work before you changed it - when it was racist. this survey has not basis in fact and should be monkee. period.
what about my other questions? hmmm? also, it matters not to me what you think of latvians!

Thank you! That was precisely the aesthetic I was aiming to achieve!

yep, youre right. not one person noticed either - including you who marked it reasonable HA! i laughed about that for a while...cant really compare that to this, though. like i said, i had nothing to do with this nonsense. i go away for one day...sheesh.

How come the monkeeee category was hacked in (it was never supposed to be a real survey category) and now any survey that it silly or 'not real' is "supposed" to go there? I don't think silly surveys need to go in monkeeeee if theres another perfectly legitimate category they could go in. I don't even think monkeeee should be suggested in qual.

Yes, I agree.

Hehe...well, if that was your goal then I guess I have no complaints.

I have something else to say on a different topic.

I like to eat Pringles crisps but now I'm worried about getting fat. I saw some scary program on TV last night about fat people and how they may have gotten it by getting a virus much like the common cold. What does one do? Am I just reaching that stage where I am getting middle-aged spread. And if so how big do I have to get before I do something about it. I don't like exercise and I don't like food restrictions. My pants still fit but its thought for the future!

It's ok, sexy. I like my bois chubby. Come to mummy!

Who the fudge are they?

Excellent! Due to popular response, I'm planning on incorporating that option into more of my surveys!

i have no idea what in the hell a syldavian is

I've seen some in Qual. I like them as some of the questions are too hard and I like to have the option to talk about something else important to me.

In fact - scary thought No.2. I'm turning into Phoebe/Confetti!

Don't do that!

...really, one is quite enough!

SNIT!

I have never smelled a Syldavian, much less do I know what one is.

That's because the other one wasnt xenophobic whereas the original one of this was bordering on it. Xenophobia implies intent and I doubt that was the intent since I'm guessing this is a Zang survey.

That catching fat thing was ridiculous pseudo-science clap-trap. Don't fret about it! You had to get that it was silly when they kept going all Bollywood in a science programme???

The critics said that it was a shame that no-one was prepared to take the guy seriously and this shows by the way the programme makers turned the report into the Bollywood scene. Is that a reflection on the research or the attitudes of the programme makers.

Well it is the programme makers, but I still think it's a silly piece of research. I could understand that in a few (very, very few) cases, some kind of virus could cause it but that completely ignores the fact that the rise in junk food and processed food has been followed by a rise in obesity. That's not by chance. Plus people usually do lose weight if they eat better and exercise more.

It was interesting from a psychological point of view - the reactions of the people getting their test results. The woman who was dissappointed because she didn't test negative.

People like an excuse - it's all in my genes, I have a slow metabolism, I had a virus......

In some cases it might be true, but not that many.